Five-Dimensional (CYBER) Warfighting: Can the Army After Next Be Defeated Through Complex Concepts and Technologies.

Abstract

The author offers a scenario which frontally assaults some of the premises he sees emerging from the Army After Next Project. He forecasts a scenario in which a future enemy concedes that the U.S. Army's superior technology, advanced weaponry, and proven record of success in recent military operations make it virtually invulnerable to conventional forms of symmetric attack. They therefore seek asymmetric ways to obviate those advantages. The author devises a five-dimensional, holistic approach to warfare that uses the three dimensions of land, sea, and aerospace but also incorporates the temporal and cyber dimensions of warfare. This approach to warfare exploits U.S. weaknesses while maximizing the enemy's limited areas of technological capability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 10, 1998
Accession Number
ADA341565

Entities

People

  • Robert J. Bunker

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Autonomy
  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Command And Control
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Employment
  • High Power Microwaves
  • Information Operations
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
  • Nonlethal Weapons
  • Organizational Structure
  • Precision-Guided Munitions
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Effects

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Space